The Pentagon is quietly testing how viruses and microbes behave beyond Earth, betting that space can harden the United States ...

NASA is speeding up communications in space with experiments aboard the International Space Station, Orion spacecraft and ...

Such experiments have previously only been conducted aboard the International Space Station.

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential for life as we know it can form readily in space. This discovery, ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

"Microgravity pushed evolution into corners of the phage we still don't fully understand" ...

After more than five months in space, four astronauts on a mission known as Crew-11 are about to cut their mission short and ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe. On November 2, 2000, ...

When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030, its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it remains an open question as to whether its successes matched humanity's ...

Since 2000, for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, NASA and its partners have sustained a continuous human presence in ...

Four astronauts returned to Earth early Thursday morning after leaving the International Space Station a month early because ...